And David saw himself reflected in the Woodsman's eyes, and there he was no longer old but a young man, for a… — John Connolly Children Copy Share Image
“He was just a boy wearing pajamas, one slipper, and an old blue dressing gown under a stranger's jacket, and he did… — John Connolly Blue dress Copy Share Image
“Come on,” I said a third time, to the approaching darkness, to the figures that beckoned from within it, to the peace… — John Connolly Darkness Copy Share Image
“There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise,… — John Connolly Art Copy Share Image
“His features were smudged and indistinct, as though a thumb had smeared itself across an ink drawing of a face. His” — John Connolly Smudged Copy Share Image
We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we… — John Connolly Death Copy Share Image
“Perhaps other souls than human are sometimes born into the world, and clothed in human flesh. —Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas (1864)” — John Connolly Nature of man Copy Share Image
“Frank tried to look like he was wrestling with his conscience, although he couldn't have found his conscience without a shovel and… — John Connolly Humor Copy Share Image
“The nature of compassion isn't coming to terms with your own suffering and applying it to others: It's knowing that other folks… — John Connolly Compassion Copy Share Image
“There’s a kind of evil that isn’t even in opposition to good, because good is an irrelevance to it. It’s a foulness… — John Connolly Evil Copy Share Image
This life is filled with threats and danger, David. We face those that we have to face, and there will be times… — John Connolly Choices Copy Share Image
“I disliked the attitude of those who came up from the cities to hunt—their braggadocio, their faux machismo, the unpleasant transformative effect… — John Connolly Men Hunted Copy Share Image
“All great art commences with a vision, and perhaps it may be that the vision is closer to God than that which… — John Connolly Art Copy Share Image
“Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself,… — John Connolly Bad Copy Share Image
Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, they… — John Connolly Beaks Copy Share Image
“Angel and Louis in particular could have catalyzed a coma victim back to consciousness. He knew where Parker and the others were” — John Connolly Coma Copy Share Image
“Some revelations came only with the sound of dirt falling on a coffin; the ones that mattered, the ones that made for… — John Connolly Regret Copy Share Image
“She was tall and dark, and although her individual features were without flaw, they had somehow combined to form an unattractive whole,… — John Connolly Unattractive Copy Share Image
“had been like wandering into the wrong carnival sideshow, the kind that left one feeling sick and slightly soiled.” — John Connolly Feeling sick Copy Share Image
“I could not live without seasons, for in seasons are reflected in the rhythms of our existence: of birth and maturity, or… — John Connolly Life Copy Share Image
“You still carrying an arsenal in the trunk of your car?” “Why, you need something?” “No, but if your car is hit… — John Connolly Lightning Copy Share Image
“Whether his prayers were in vain or not, he didn’t care. It was the effort that counted. But he knew that, somewhere,… — John Connolly Prayer Copy Share Image
“Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live… — John Connolly Distrust Copy Share Image
You don't have much faith in people, do you?' asked David. 'I don't have much faith in anything,' Roland replied. 'Not even… — John Connolly David Copy Share Image
“My grandfather used to say that if God did not allow a man to be reunited with his dogs in the next… — John Connolly Grandfather Copy Share Image
“Then again, maybe nostalgia was an understandable response to a world that appeared to be going all to hell, as long as… — John Connolly Nostalgia Copy Share Image
“No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive.… — John Connolly Corrupt Copy Share Image
“And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the… — John Connolly Deuteronomy Copy Share Image
...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that. — John Connolly Creativity Copy Share Image
It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like… — John Connolly Clouds Copy Share Image
“The Catholic Church was not short of lawyers, especially in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as anyone who had dealt with the archdiocese… — John Connolly Religion Copy Share Image
“He thought of the old commonplace about how giving up vices didn’t make you live longer, but just made it feel as… — John Connolly Thought Old Copy Share Image
